OctoberMegan and Ed visited New York shortly after Christina announced she was pregnant; Megan was not-so-secretly pregnant. We took James to the Bronx Zoo! James started crawling on his belly, holding himself in a standing position, he turned 6 months old, and then we did the obligatory it's-October-visit-a-pumpkin-patch thing. He had his first snow in October, which is another sign of the apocalypse after the earthquke and hurricane in August. James made the cutest monkey ever on his first Halloween.

We lost Kevin's grandfather George. James got his first teeth in the bottom center of his mouth, started crawling all over the place, pulling up constantly, and trying to cruise right before he turned 8 months. James celebrated his first Nochebuena with my mom here in Long Island, and his first Christmas with Kevin's family in Cape Cod. We wrapped the year with a ton of holiday visitors: Jaime, Casey, Victoria, Laurel, Oliver, Uncle Andrew, and Chrissy, Jason, and Owen!